Candidates Tournament: Aronyan conceded to Anand

21:40 - 21 Mar, 2016

Armenia's chess team member Levon Aronyan suffered his first defeat at the Chess Candidates tournament.

In round 9 of the tournament being held in Moscow, Aronyan played black against Vishy Anand. On the 66th move the Indian grand master gained advantage over Aronyan.Now Aronyan has only 5 points and places third. Vishy Anand and Sergei Karjakin have 5,5 points each.In the next round Aronyan will compete against Veselin Topalov.March 22 is a rest day in the Candidates tournament.